AEW’s North American diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in North America, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s European diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in Europe, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s Asia Pacific diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in the Asia pacific region, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s global real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public property markets throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific with the objective of achieving above-average income and long-term capital growth. The strategy typically includes 90-140 positions selected from our universe of approximately 280 REITs and other publicly traded real estate companies worldwide.

The global focused strategy is designed to seek more targeted exposure to the global real estate equity securities market, typically holding between 40-50 securities. The global focused strategy holds more concentrated positions in companies that present value opportunities, thereby seeking to provide above average income and long-term growth of capital. 

The absolute return real estate equity securities strategy offers dynamic long and short position in European real estate securities with the goal to show positive returns in both up and down markets. The typical number of positions is between 10 and 40 (5-20 long and 0-20 short).

The U.S. income REIT strategy is designed to offer enhanced income and risk-adjusted total returns through a disciplined value approach based on bottom-up security selection of primarily REIT preferred securities. Security selection is made with a particular emphasis on balance sheet strength; balance sheet strategy; relative evaluation of each security; and catalysts that will lead to the improvement/deterioration in overall credit metrics.